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To: LindyBill who wrote (78531)	10/18/2004 9:00:30 AM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793822

Really LB, you link to a couple of hard Right entertainers to try to support your argument. I followed the link through to Limbaugh's piece. Limbaugh is so clueless that he writes this: In addition to that, one of the companies that remained and stayed in business was a company called Chiron. They're being sued left and right over financial problems that have nothing to do with the quality of their vaccine. I'm not going to detail what those problems are because it's not relevant, but they're being targeted now. So that's another manufacturer that has put up their hands and said, "Whoa, it isn't worth all this," and so that's why we have to import from Britain, and, lo and behold, they had a company that ended up with their flu vaccines contaminated. Did he not realize that Chiron owns the plant in Britain and bought it specifically to serve the U.S. market? Did he not realize that Chiron planned on doubling vaccine sales to the U.S. market? Do you have anything factual that shows the U.S. gov't purchased more than 5% of the demand for this years flu vaccine? I understand that this was the first year they purchased any significant amount of the vaccine. By the way, the British government has no trouble keeping five vaccine suppliers even with government purchasing. Anyhow, I'll stop now as I realize that you don't want to bore the faithful.